1. Let’s just get straight in there with this one. Hiddleswift became a real life thing this year.

2. Taylor Swift started dating Tom Hiddleston straight after splitting from Calvin Harris, which was pretty WTF anyway. But then things moved insanely quickly. Here they are meeting Tom’s mother after just NINE DAYS of dating.

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3. Then just over TWO WEEKS after they started going out, Tom declared his love for Taylor on a T-shirt for the world to see.

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4. He wore it during her 4th July party, which, as usual, included her billions of celeb friends. Including Ryan Reynolds, and this photo was born.

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You can tell this wasn’t his idea.
You can tell he thinks this was a dick move.
Ryan Reynolds always knows.

Here’s the summary: Taylor and Calvin broke up; things were totally fine. Some shit happened, they deleted every pic of each other, Taylor started her romantic world tour with Tom Hiddleston, and then Calvin Harris went off on Taylor on Twitter.

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6. It happened when it was revealed Taylor actually wrote “This Is What You Came For”, Calvin’s song with Rihanna.

Calvin tweeted a string of messages which read: “She sings on a little bit of it too ? Amazing lyric writer and she smashed it as usual. I wrote the music, produced the song, arranged it and cut the vocals though. And initially she wanted it kept secret, hence the pseudonym. Hurtful to me at this point that her and her team would go so far out of their way to try and make ME look bad at this stage though ? I figure if you’re happy in your new relationship you should focus on that instead of trying to tear your ex bf down for something to do. I know you’re off tour and you need someone new to try and bury like Katy ETC but I’m not that guy, sorry. I won’t allow it.”

That was definitely a Katy Perry dig, right?! We’d explain that one, but that was so 2015.

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And it appeared like Katy Perry maybe, could have possibly responded with a GIF.

7. It was also the year there was a WHOLE lot of Kanye and Taylor beef. It started when Kanye released a song called “Famous” with the lyrics “I think that me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that bitch famous”. This caused a LOT of drama.

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Basically Taylor claimed that she never approved the lyrics, and warned Kanye not to release it.

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Her publicist told BuzzFeed at the time: “Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single ‘Famous’ on her Twitter account. She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that bitch famous.’”

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8. Then there was a lot of back and forth. Kanye said she definitely heard and loved it, Kim K backed him up in her GQ interview.

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3rd thing I called Taylor and had a hour long convo with her about the line and she thought it was funny and gave her blessings

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)

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9. THEN SHIT GOT TOTALLY MESSY. Kim decided to upload the video of the phone call between Kanye and Taylor to Snapchat. We’re still not over it tbh.

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10. Anyway, then Taylor put this on Instagram following Kim’s snapchat reveal.

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BUT THAT WASN’T ALL.

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11. A shit load of other celebs got involved, including Chloë Moretz, who dubbed the whole thing “petulant and unimportant”.

Everyone in this industry needs to get their heads out of a hole and look around to realize what’s ACTUALLY happening in the REAL world

— Chloë Grace Moretz (@ChloeGMoretz)

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Stop wasting your voice on something so petulant and unimportant

— Chloë Grace Moretz (@ChloeGMoretz)

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12. So of course Khloe Kardashian got involved, and it ended up being Khloe vs Chloë. Kim’s sister tweeted this, alongside a picture of a girl that looked like Moretz from the back with her swimming bottoms falling down and showing off her bare bottom.

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Which led to Chloë hitting back with this.

@khloekardashian fact check: first photo is me filming my movie Neighbors 2, the second photo is some girl who was wrongfully photographed

— Chloë Grace Moretz (@ChloeGMoretz)

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13. Anyway, Ruby Rose weighed in etc etc.

@ChloeGMoretz @0hbubbl3s @khloekardashian Yo Khloe I thought you were rad when I met you but this is awful and this is a 19 year old girl.

— Ruby Rose (@RubyRose)

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14. But it wasn’t all about Taylor. Lindsay Lohan debuted a new weird accent.

She said it’s a “mixture of most of the languages I can understand or am trying to learn”.

Who knew she cared so much about British politics?

16. Oh, also Kanye went to Trump Tower to hang out with Donald because that’s what a regular week day looks like in 2016 now. Apparently they just discussed “life”.

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“We’ve been friends for a long time,” Trump told the media while posing for pictures. IDK.

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17. Kim Kardashian decided to snapchat her way through a pregnancy scare. Because why not.

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“I’m legit in the airplane bathroom and I’m gonna take a pregnancy test, because I’m having a little bit of a scare,” she said in a video. “So, no big deal.”

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19. Heidi Klum dressed as six Heidi Klums for Halloween, as you do.

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20. Then there was all the Blac Chyna/Rob Kardashian drama. We’re over the shock of them getting together. We think we’re even almost over them having a baby together and calling their daughter Dream Kardashian

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21. But we’re not sure we’re over their relationship in early December. It’s a bit of a long story, but it started with a load of messages that appeared on Blac Chyna’s Instagram account.

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What followed was a long, long list of purported messages between Chyna and others, including one which allegedly tried to show her making plans to trademark the Kardashian name, while others badmouthed Rob. It’s important to note that we could never verify whether the messages were real or not.

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22. But things got weirder just after that when Rob started posting on Snapchat claiming she’d walked out on him for Christmas with their baby. As he toured his empty home he said, “Got the Christmas tree all set up for Chyna and the baby, but they left me.”

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Oh, and to make matters worse she apparently left with all of the food from the house as well. “She took all the Eggos. Man, all my Eggos,” he said as he showed viewers an empty fridge and pantry. “Where’s my sugar? She took my sugar! She took my OPEN bag of my favorite chips!”

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23. Then, because this wasn’t all weird enough, Rob started posting memes — HONEST TO GOD, MEMES — about the apparent breakup of his family.

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Anyway, you can read all the details here in full if you want to get totally up to speed.

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24. 2016 also saw Leonardo DiCaprio making out with Dame Maggie Smith at the BAFTAs.

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25. He also made this hilarious face when Lady Gaga brushed past him at the Golden Globes.

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26. But maybe the best Leo moment of all was when he took a selfie and was really impressed with himself.

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“Who is that fine gentleman?”

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27. Oh, and this year, after 200 million years, Leo FINALLY won a goddamn Oscar.

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Look how happy he was!

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28. In more weird romance moments, Cheryl Cole and Liam Payne started dating.

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Which felt a bit WTF at first considering they met in 2008… when he was 14 auditioning for The X Factor and she was 24 and the judge.

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But they are happy and expecting a baby now, yay!

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29. Also J-Lo and Drake rounded up the year by becoming a thing.

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Yep, really.

Drake and Jennifer Lopez ?

— Rap Direct (@RapDirect)

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30. Idris Elba was also rumoured to be sleeping with Madonna in another weird romance story of the year.

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But he soon cleared that one up.

Am I sleeping with Madonna? No motherfuckers… “Don’t believe the Hype”.

— Idris Elba (@idriselba)

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31. Meanwhile Madonna decided to expose a teen’s boob while performing on stage, because she’s Madonna.